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Unit Title:Huckleberry Finn
Grade Level(s): 9-10
Subject/Topic Area(s): American Literature
Key Words: Racism, theme, plot, sattire, setting
Designed by: Garrett Hodgkins
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School District:RSU 9 School: Mount Blue High School

Brief Summary of Unit

This unit is a literature unit covering Huckleberry Finn. The unit aims to cover some of the CCSS standards of key ideas and details, as well as craft and structure. Through this unit, it is the hope that students will have an understanding of how writing styles can affect novels and their themes, as well as the differences in dialect and vocab between time periods. Furthermore, it is the aim of this unit to bring an understanding that their may be larger underlying themes in novels, and that students need to seek them out.
Students will be expected to be able to answer questions dealing with racism, themes, and character development